AI-Driven Legal Engineer: Transactional Workflows

Socket.dev; Philadelphia (Philadelphia County); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev seeks a Legal Engineer – Transactional to translate diligence, drafting, and deal-support activities into reliable, governed AI-enabled workflows. You will design prompts, agents, and retrieval pipelines, building evaluation sets and guardrails for production-ready solutions that scale in transactional practice.

The ideal candidate combines hands-on fluency with generative AI platforms and workflow tooling with enough transactional understanding to ensure what is built is effective,

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of experience in transactional practice, legal technology, knowledge management, legal operations, practice innovation, or similar environment with hands-on AI/workflow building experience.
• Hands-on AI build experience—prompt engineering, AI workflow or agent development, and configuring legal AI platforms (e.g., Harvey, Legora, CoCounsel, Copilot, or contract-review platforms such as Kira or Luminance).
• Familiarity with retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) concepts and evaluation of model outputs.

Responsibilities

• Build and engineer AI-enabled transactional workflows across the firm’s approved AI platforms for diligence review, first-pass agreement review, redlining, clause extraction, deal-term summarization, and closing-checklist automation.
• Develop and maintain prompt libraries, retrieval pipelines, clause banks, document templates, and reusable workflow components with attorney-ready documentation.
• Translate practice requirements into technical specifications, workflow logic, and structured solutions; use low-code tools and integrations where appropriate.
• Collaborate with Innovation Attorney (Transactional) and other teams to extend platforms and connect AI workflows to firm systems.
• Document testing protocols, evaluation outcomes, and risk factors; embed human-review checkpoints and governance.

Skills

Hands-on AI build experience

Prompt engineering

AI workflow development

Education

J.D. preferred

Job description

Socket.dev seeks a Legal Engineer – Transactional to translate diligence, drafting, and deal-support activities into reliable, governed AI-enabled workflows. You will design prompts, agents, and retrieval pipelines, building evaluation sets and guardrails for production-ready solutions that scale in transactional practice.

The ideal candidate combines hands-on fluency with generative AI platforms and workflow tooling with enough transactional understanding to ensure what is built is effective,